Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 76082
a .doc file is opened for several minutes in OOo 2.2 - 3.0.1
Last modified: 2009-02-03 11:18:18 UTC
I attached a document in a .zip-archive. There's an MS Word document, it contains a UN Convention on the Law of the Sea both in English and in Russian languages. The document is designed as a 2-column table with the text in two languages side by side. This document opens in less than 5 seconds in MS Word. It opens in OOo Writer 2.2 and 2.1 for several minutes (about 10 minutes or even more, I didn't measure the exact time). It finally opened, the table loaded and showed up, but it was only on one page, while the original text was much longer and occupied several pages. But OOo showed only one page with a table, and the beginning of the text inside the table. I know that the full text was loaded in OOo, but I couldn't get it out of the table. I managed to get such "hidden" text before from another document, but don't remember how.
Created attachment 44210 [details] a zip-compressed .doc file that take minutes to load in OOo Writer
Same problem as issue 75939. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 75939 ***
Closing duplicate.
The attached file - a 179-pages two-column table of English and Russian text - still takes more than 10 minutes to load, tried it on 2 February 2009 in OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 under Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit SP1 (Intel Celeron Mobile 1,6 GHz CPU, 1,5 Gb RAM). On the same system, it takes less than 5 seconds to open this document in Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 or Microsoft Word 2007. Some more time is required to actually load the whole document, so that to be able to scroll through it. Loading time doesn't seem to have changed since OpenOffice.org 2.2 under Windows XP SP2 (Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz CPU, 1 Gb RAM). And many pages of the text are still wrapped into a one-page table in OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, the text can be selected even far below the lower border of the table, but it is not visible there and is not accessible. Didn't manage to "free" the text out of the table. Also tried exporting this document to PDF. Only a one-page table was exported.
Unfortunately that's true. But this issue has been marked as dup of issue 75939, and as long as that one is not fixed, this here won't work either. Feel free to add yourself to cc of issue 75939 to keep informed about the progress of this.